Morley Glass hits 1,000-tonne glass recycling milestone
Uni-Blinds integral blind manufacturer Morley Glass is celebrating saving over 1,000 tonnes of post-consumer glass from landfill in the two years since it launched its recycling scheme, as well as raising over £60,000 for...
Second recycling line at Veka Compounds
Veka Recycling has installed a second extrusion line for its Veka Compounds division to turn more reclaimed PVC-U into pellets.
The investment, which totals more than £500,000, gives the company two Krauss Maffei compounding lines...
UK/RoI record year for PVC recycling – but ‘notifiable’ status could bring export problems...
The UK and Ireland collected and recycled a total of 143,428 tonnes of waste PVC last year, with windows accounting for over 60% of that and putting us second only after Germany, according to...
Rehau chief Heuer elected VinylPlus Vice-Chair
The General Assembly of VinylPlus has unanimously elected Carsten Heuer, Chief Executive Officer of Rehau Windows Solutions, as the new vice-chairman for the next two years. He takes over the role from Myriam Tryjefaczka,...
Veka Recycling plant ‘officially’ opened – at last
Veka Group CEO Andreas Hartleif has officially opened The new Veka Recycling plant – some 15 months after the £15million facility went live, when ever-changing Covid restrictions allowed the global head of the group...
CDW recognised for saving CO2 with Circal
Gloucester-based aluminium fabricator CDW Systems, has received an award from profile supplier Technal UK (Hydro Building Systems) for cutting CO2 emissions by using its Circal 75 recycled profile.
CDW group chairman Jeremy Phillips said: “Technal...
White paper adds further support for recycling PVC-U – and metal
The economic and environmental case for recycling PVC-U windows has been further supported by a new White Paper which shows the benefits of both post-industrial and post-consumer waste – but also including the potential...
Recycled Circal saves 25,000 tonnes of CO2 in its first year with Hydro
More than 100 large building projects in ten countries across two continents have helped Technal to save 25,000 tonnes of CO2 by the use of Circal recycled aluminium products since it became part of...
Technal and Wicona claim a world-first with 100% recycled ali profiles
Hydro brands Technal and Wicona today announced they have become the first aluminium building system companies to manufacture door, window and curtain walling profiles from 100% recycled aluminium, using the new Hydro Circal 100R.
The...
‘Unprecedented challenges’ saw VinylPlus recycling drop in ‘23
Recycling within the VinylPlus framework saw its first drop in recent years but the decrease was only slight compared with a significant reduction in PVC demand, delegates heard at the organisation’s 12th annual Sustainability...
